If I remember rightly, most of the changes between the line art and the finished comic were visual changes rather than dialogue changes (although there are a couple of these, such as in the final panel of page 7).

This is mostly because I refined the dialogue in the time between planning the comic and drawing the line art, so most of the dialogue changes happened before the comic was made.

Still, there were quite a few visual changes. Most of these involved reducing the amount of blood in a few scenes (since it looked a little bit excessive) and, yes, this can be seen in the line art since I used red ink for the blood. The most notable example is probably in the third and fifth panels of page eight.

The most notable visual change is probably the cover, which I’d originally envisaged as a minimalist thing featuring silhouettes of the characters (with red fangs). But, this didn’t look that good. So, I had to spend quite a while adding lots of extra detail to the finished cover art digitally.

Anyway, here’s the line art (you can click on each piece of line art to see a larger version of it) Enjoy 🙂

Well, in case you missed any of it, here are all eleven pages (including the cover) of my new Halloween comic in one easy-to-read post 🙂 You can also find loads of other comics featuring these characters here too.

Unlike last year’s comic, I initially decided to return to black and white artwork (mostly for time and/or sanity reasons, given the length of the comic). But, this soon mostly turned into limited colour greyscale after I realised that I could use red ink for blood effects. And, well, you can’t have a vampire comic without blood in it…

Anyway, here’s the comic 🙂 I hope you have as much fun reading it as I had making it 🙂

As usual, all pages of this comic are released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND licence. Likewise, you can click on each page to see a much larger version of it.

Happy Halloween everyone 🙂 Here’s the final page of “Nocturnal” 🙂 But, don’t worry if you missesd any of it – I’ll be posting a full retrospective here later tonight. In the meantime, you can find lots of other comics featuring these characters here.

Wow! Although the ending ended up being a little bit compressed and contrived (eg: I didn’t have space to include an explanation that the main characters survived because they were only recently turned into vampires), making this page was a surprisingly eerie experience.

Basically, my drawing pen ran out before the last two panels. So, I was forced to switch to one with a finer nib when drawing these panels. Then, when I was editing the page on my computer, I suddenly had vivid flashbacks to my early experiments with comics (using a finer pen than I normally do) during 2010. It literally felt like no time whatsoever had passed since then. It’s a difficult experience to put into words, but it really caught me by surprise.

Anyway, I’m rambling. So, here’s the comic page. Enjoy 🙂
As usual, this comic page is released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND licence.

You can also find lots of other comics featuring these characters here too. Stay tuned for the final page of this comic tomorrow 🙂
As usual, this comic page is released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND licence.

You can also find lots of other comics featuring these characters here too. Stay tuned for the next page of this comic tomorrow 🙂
As usual, this comic page is released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND licence.

You can also find lots of other comics featuring these characters here too. Stay tuned for the next page of this comic tomorrow 🙂
As usual, this comic page is released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND licence.